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What is Worship From the Heart?

Several years after the sudden death of our sixteen-year-old son, Mark, God seared into our souls a vivid image of the privilege of corporate worship within our covenant community...

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Ten Bad Reasons for Leaving Your Church

There are many good reasons why people decide to leave a church. But there are some very bad reasons as well that have the great potential for throwing a church family into a pit of...

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Priorities That Build Strong Marriages

People of faith often forget that the first place to serve our God is in their marriages and homes. And when we forget that important principle, we endanger the godly legacy that it is...

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Perseverance in Marriage

Knowing the right thing to do is fairly easy. Doing the right thing is much harder. Not long ago God convicted a good friend of ours, Ellen, about her hateful behavior toward her husband...

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Longing for What Was

Think of a perfect moment in your past, the moment to which you wish you could return. Our moment is July 6, 1993, before 10:40 p.m. We were helping our daughter Heidi and her fiancé...

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A Safe Place for Rahab

She’s called Rahab, the prostitute in the Hall of Faith (Hebrews 11). Her actions helped the Israelites win the battle of Jericho. She had heard stories of God’s power and presence...

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A Secret of the Heart

Unbeknownst to many, we live in a nation where millions of women (and men) carry a ‘secret of the heart’…one that heart- wrenchingly goes directly to the soul where it looms daily…dark and ominous...

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